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It’s the summer of 1993, and Will Byers, armed with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and powers he’s gotten much better at controlling, is doing his damnedest to make rent for his shoebox apartment in the Lower East Side. Between his day job at the MoMA gift shop and late nights bartending at a popular local establishment known for its drag shows, he attends ACT UP demonstrations and works toward his dream of one day making a living through his art.
All this should, logically, leave very little time for lingering, clandestine feelings for a childhood friend, but Will’s lovesickness for Mike is something he was never able to fully shake, and the fact that Mike’s name keeps popping up everywhere thanks to a bestselling sci-fi novel is not helping one bit.
Unbeknownst to Will, Mike Wheeler has been harboring secrets of his own. Secrets that have been bleeding into his writing for years. When his publisher floats the idea of turning his bestseller into a comic book series, he knows there’s only one person on earth he trusts to do the illustrations for it. And maybe, just maybe, he’ll find a way to write the two of them a happy ending.